Your favorite Mutt Family characters are back and they’re asking, What’s In Your Doghouse? This engaging, hands-on, structured therapy tool will help children with CAS or developmental delays bridge motor speech to expressive language skills without taxing the speech-motor planning system.
It’s all about getting a match! Your student(s) will have in front of them a game board and many doghouses, each with a token inside that may or may not be a match to their game board. The first student to get all 7 matches wins! Throughout the game, work with your student(s) to:
- Expand language skills.
- Produce simple common nouns.
- Strengthen the ability to produce simple syllable shapes, especially CVC and simple bisyllabics, such as the Mutt Family character names (Buddy, Heidi, Paddy, etc).
- Produce word combinations of two and three words in Verb-Object or Subject-Verb-Object phrases.
- Produce grammatically correct sentences.
- Improve social interactive language.
With minimal preparation, this can be played with 1 – 6 players. Ideal for group therapy, including children with different levels of functioning. Great for one-on-one therapy too. Depending on your student’s ability, other options of play include:
- Focusing on literacy.
- Visual memory challenge.
- Social skills reinforcement (turn taking, eye contact, etc).
- Practicing simple pivot phrases.
- Using word retrieval for nouns and verbs.
- Targeting simple syntax and morphology.
This can also be used to reinforce and build on skills learned in the Kaufman Treatment Kit 1 and Kaufman Workout Book.
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD – Small parts not for children under 3 years old. Made in the USA.
(product description courtesy of Northern Speech Services)
